Exodus 34:13

Tree of Life Version

Instead you must break down their ­altars, smash their pillars and cut down their Asherah poles.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:15

Adonai will strike Israel until it sways like a reed in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Adonai.

2 Kings 10:27

Then they demolished the pillar of Baal, tore down the temple of Baal and turned it into latrines—as it is to this day.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, smashed the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made—for up to those days Bnei-Yisrael were still burning incense to it—it was called Nehushtan .

2 Kings 23:14

He smashed the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and filled their places with human bones.

2 Chronicles 14:3

He commanded Judah to seek Adonai, the God of their fathers, and to obey the Torah and the mitzvah.

2 Chronicles 15:16

He also deposed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from being queen because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her abominable image, crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 17:6

His heart was devoted to the ways of Adonai. Furthermore he removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah.

2 Chronicles 24:18

They forsook the House of Adonai, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols. Wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for their guilt.

2 Chronicles 31:1

When all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the towns of Judah and smashed the pillars, smashed the Asherah poles and demolished the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as throughout Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all Bnei-Yisrael returned to their towns, each to their own property.

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer also, and how God was moved by his entreaty, all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherah poles and the carved images before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of Hozai.

Exodus 23:24

You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them, or do what they do. Rather, you are to utterly overthrow them, and break their pillars in pieces.

Isaiah 17:8

He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor will he look to what his fingers have made—neither the Asherah poles nor the sun-images.

Isaiah 27:9

So by this will Jacob’s sin be atoned and this the full price to remove his sin: When he makes all the altar stones like shattered chalk stones, so that the Asherah poles and incense rise no more.

Jeremiah 17:2

So their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by leafy trees on the high hills.

Micah 5:14

So I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath on the nations that have not listened.

Numbers 33:52

You must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. You must destroy all their idols and cast images, and demolish their high places.

Deuteronomy 16:21

You are not to plant for yourself an Asherah pole of any kind of wood beside the altar of Adonai your God that you make for yourself.

Deuteronomy 16:22

Nor are you to set up a pillar for yourself—Adonai your God hates this.

Deuteronomy 7:5

Instead, you are to deal with them like this: tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.

Judges 2:2

Now as for you, you must make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You must break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to My voice. What is this you have done?

Judges 6:25

Now it came to pass the same night that Adonai said to him, “Take the young bull that belongs to your father and a second bull of seven years old, pull down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father, cut down the Asherah that is beside it,

Judges 6:26

build an altar to Adonai your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly manner, and take the second bull and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah pole that you will cut down.”